Students cheers from the stands during the celebrations for Ghana 65th Independence Day on March 6, 2022. The country gained independence on March 6, 1957. The author of this article recalls his boyhood celebrations — which involved uniforms, marching and a free bottle of soda. Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Part of a welcome for the United States-Soviet commission on Korea on their arrival in Pyongyang on July 23, 1947, was this parade of Korean communists carrying huge portraits of Josef Stalin and Kim Il Sung. The commission visited Pyongyang, 165 miles north of Seoul, for the purpose of getting views of political groups on the prospecting. U.S. Army Signal Corps/AP hide caption
Consumers are paying cash for preventive health testing with full body scans, which typically use MRI technology. Mindful Media/Getty Images/E+ hide caption
Scott Simon's family at the Normandy cemetery. Scott Simon hide caption
North Korean defectors living in South Korea release balloons carrying propaganda leaflets denouncing North Korea's nuclear test at Imjingak, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Feb. 16, 2013, in Paju, South Korea. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. gangster Al Capone has his photo taken while in custody in Philadelphia, May 18, 1929. -/AP hide caption
People in both New York and Dublin, Ireland, wave and signal at each other while looking at a livestream view of one another as part of an art installation on the street in New York, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
People cycle along the street in Afuá, a city in northern Brazil's Pará state, in January. Since 2002, this city on the banks of the Amazon River has been famously off limits to motor vehicles. Stefan Kolumban hide caption
Demonstrators hold up lights from their phones during a rally organized by Hong Kong mothers in support of extradition law protesters, in Hong Kong on July 5, 2019. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A screenshot from the new ad for "the thinnest Apple product ever." NPR hide caption
People visit exhibits inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins, Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Scott Simon's daughter Elise and his wife, Caroline, on Elise's first birthday. Scott Simon hide caption
New York Yankees radio broadcaster John Sterling speaks during the teams 63rd Old Timers Day before the game against the Detroit Tigers on July 19, 2009, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. Jim McIsaac/Getty Images hide caption
An NPR team's protective vests and helmets in a hotel room in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy of NPR) NPR hide caption
Preview visitors attend the Neo Rauch exhibition "Begleiter" at Pinakothek der Moderne art museum in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 2010. Johannes Simon/Getty Images hide caption
US President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Force One at Minneapolis-Sait Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 1, 2022. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Judge Alla Nazarova attends a hearing in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in Moscow on Nov. 25, 2021. Dmitry Serebryakov/AP hide caption
A bowl of stickers is set out for voter March 15, 2020, in Steubenville, Ohio Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press hide caption
Scott Simon has a new, foster cat in addition to a dog and hamster. Scott Simon hide caption
